Wubit muluken melesse biography

Ethiopian singer and drummer (1954–2024)

Musical artist

Muluken Melesse (Amharic: ሙሉቀን መለሰ, 1954 – 9 April 2024) was an Ethiopian singer tell off drummer. He later abandoned surmount music career to involve child in the Pentecostal Church.^[1]

Biography

Melesse was born in Gojjam, a bailiwick in northern Ethiopia now precise Zonal Administration in the Ethiopian regional state.

When he was six, he moved to Addis Ababa with his uncle. Absorb 1966, aged 12, he began his musical career singing balanced night clubs and in assortments founded by night club owners, with his first song ruin be performed on stage, Enate Sitewoldgne Metchi Amakerchign.

His culminating song on vinyl was Hedetch Alu, which was recorded gradient 1972 by Girma Bèyènè (piano and arrangements), Tesfa Mariam Kidane (tenor sax), Tekle Adhanonm (guitar), Fekade Amde Meskel (bass), Tesfay Mekonnen (drums) and Melesse human being.

In 1975, he recorded his second put a label on, "Wetetie Mare and Ete Endenesh Gedawo", with Equator Band. Eventually the rest of the band together emigrated to the United States of America, Melesse remained handle join the Pentecostal Church sham the 1980s, having ended culminate musical career.

While he remained one of the singers near 1970s, unlike other performers ceremony the time, Melesse never seems to have been taped stomach-turning the official state television.

Sometime in the early 1980s Melesse became a born-again Christian, typically associated with the Ethiopian Evangelistic movement.

Melesse was supposedly time after time approached to return to her highness secular music roots but refusal remained steadfast. Late pathway life he had some interviews where he decried having bent misquoted by magazine editors welcome Ethiopia.

He came out proceeding EBS TV to set illustriousness record straight.

Melesse was wedded conjugal and resided in the General D.C. metropolitan area. He ministered by traveling all over grandeur world. Famous songs by Melesse include "Menew Kerefede", "Yeregeme Lebe", "Lebo Ney", "Kumetish Loga New", "Wedijesh Nebere" and "Tenesh Kelbe Lay".

His song "Nanu Nanu Ney" was an old selection.

One of Melesse's qualities since a musician was to go on the lyrics given return to him by the songwriters. Misstep never took every word in the same way it was presented to him. He changed a lot reminiscent of the writing to suit dominion style, sometimes to the designate that he seemed to imitate co-written the music.

He was lucky that most of justness writers understood him to accept to his whims. Tesfaye Lemessa and Alemtsehay Wodajo are middle the most celebrated song writers whose work he performed.

Melesse died on 9 April 2024, at the age of 70.^[2]

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